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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Welland, Michael, 1946-
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Sand -- Miscellanea.
Sandstone -- Miscellanea.
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Sand : the never-end...
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Sand : the never-ending story / Michael Welland.
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Welland, Michael, 1946-
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
Subjects
Sand -- Miscellanea.
Sandstone -- Miscellanea.
ISBN:
9780520254374 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520254376 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description:
xiv, 343 p., [15] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 21 cm.
Contents:
Individuals : birth and character -- Tribes : the strange world of granular materials -- Sand and imagination I : very large numbers of very small things -- Societies on the move : a journey to the sea -- Moving on : waves, tides, and storms -- Blowing in the wind : desert landscapes -- Witness : testaments of sand -- Sand and imagination II : stories, medium, and muse -- Servant : sand in our lives -- Outward and onward : beyond Earth, beyond the present.
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From individual grains to desert dunes, from the bottom of the sea to the landscapes of Mars, and from billions of years in the past to the future, this is the extraordinary story of one of nature's humblest, most powerful, and most ubiquitous materials.
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Hawaii State Library
Business, Science & Technology
553.622 We
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Hilo Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
553.622 Welland
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Kahuku P/S Library
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553.622 We
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Kaimuki Public Library
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553.6 We
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Thelma Parker Memorial P/S Library
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553.622 We
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